Black Walnut Pound Cake with Chocolate Gravy - as found in Heritage by Chef Sean Brock, James Beard

Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• ½ pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
• ¾ cup Rendered Fresh Lard at room temperature
• 1 tbsp. Black Walnut oil
• 2 cups sugar
• 5 large eggs
• ½ cup whole milk
• ½ cup whole milk buttermilk
• 1 tbsp. pure vanilla extract
• 1 ½ cups chopped Black Walnuts
• ½ cup sugar
• ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 3 tbsp. all-purpose flour
• 2 ¼ cups whole milk
• 2 tbsp. unsalted butter, diced
• 2 tsp. Bourbon Barrel Foods Aged Vanilla Extract